East coast? Here come the risk-takers, the makers, the doers of things! The gates are open on the first ever World Maker Faire and the first east coast Maker Faire. We’re so thrilled to provide this opportunity for makers from this region (and beyond) to get together to share their wares and to connect with […]
The Maker Shed at World Maker Faire NY is always an exciting and store to set up, as we unload box after box of DIY Kits, Tools, Books, and Fun. One of the most exciting parts is when we unveil new products, and today we are proud to be launching the new family of Arduino Boards at World Maker Faire NY.
Modkit is a new kind of graphical programming environment that makes programming things in the physical world as easy as dragging and dropping little virtual code blocks in a web browser.. Heavily inspired by the Scratch programming environment (from MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten Group), Modkit enables anyone including kids, artists and inventors to build with electronic kits and components including motors, sensors, lights, sound and the popular Arduino and Arduino compatible development boards
(Photo: Teen Vogue) If you’re headed to World Maker Faire in NY on Saturday, come by the CRAFT booth at 3pm to see Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This… She’ll demo how to make her Sailor’s Shirt from her new P.S. I Made This…book and will be signing books after her demo in our […]
Open source hardware summit keynote – Limor “Ladyada” Fried (video m4v). Ladyada and the Adafruit gang will be at Maker Faire over the weekend, say hi!
The last in our interview series with makers presenting at World Maker Faire New York this weekend is with Michael Owen, who is bringing his Potter’s Lawnmower Wheel. Necessity is the mother of invention, and as a potter, Michael created a tool he needed out of what he had access to. Here’s what he shared […]
Ever since I read Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume a few years ago, I’ve come to really like beets. There are quite a few beet burger recipes up on the internet, but I like this beet cake recipe on Lucid Food because the ingredient list is simple.
